[Announcement from Susan Wolfe on SCRA listserv]
I don't know how many people might have seen this, but it's something to think about when sending students out to work in the community. Even if you have a well-structured program for them, this might explain why some agencies would be reluctant to take on students, even if they're free.
Student Volunteering Can Be Blessing and Curse for Nonprofit Groups
College courses that incorporate volunteerism are now part of the curriculum at most…
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[Announcement from HE-Sl listserv]
Prize for putting passion and experience to work for the greater good
Know someone who is putting their passion and experience to work for the
greater good? **
*The Purpose Prize is accepting nominations, including self-nominations, at
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www.encore.org/prize** until March 5, 2010. *
*The Purpose Prize provides ten awards of up to $100,000 *to changemakers,
60 years and older, who are creating new ways to solv…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on January 6, 2010 at 11:20am —
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[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
Nominations Due Feb 1 for Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Annual Award
Dear service-learning colleagues,
The Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) Annual Award recognizes exemplary
partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions that are striving to
achieve the systems and policy changes needed to overcome the root causes of health,
social and economic inequalities. The award highlights the power and potential of
commu…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on January 6, 2010 at 11:16am —
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[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
IMPACT: National Student Conference on Service, Advocacy & Social Action
March 19-21, 2010
The Clinton School of Public Service
Little Rock, Arkansas
Dear Campus Administrator:
Early Registration for the IMPACT Conference closes on January 22, 2010!
If you are a Campus Compact, Bonner, or ACUI institution you must register before January 22, 2010 to receive the registration discount.
As you may already know, the IMPACT Conference is a place where colle…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on January 5, 2010 at 4:45pm —
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[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
IPSL (The International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership) is
collaborating with the Building Bridges Coalition (BBC), a consortium of
leading organizations working collaboratively to promote the field of
international volunteering. The BBC is a galvanizing force, a convening
space, and the voice of our field.
The BBC is a project of the Brookings Institution's Initiative on
International Volunteering and Service and is comprised of internationa…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on December 8, 2009 at 8:40pm —
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[Announcement from comm-engagedscholarship listserv]
Are you a community-engaged faculty member in a health-related field who is committed to
supporting colleagues coming through the pipeline behind you? If so, apply now to be
listed in the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Online Database of Faculty Mentors
and Portfolio Reviewers! The database will be used by community-engaged graduate
students, post-docs and faculty who are searching for faculty mentors and by deans,
department chairs…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on December 8, 2009 at 8:33pm —
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[From HE-SL listserv]
Re: How do faculty get their course designated as a service-learning course?
At the University of Central Florida, faculty members submit a syllabus and complete a checklist of required elements to meet our campus-wide SL designation requirement. Members of a faculty course approval committee review the materials, offer suggestions and/or approval or disapproval of the course based on our criteria. Sometimes the faculty members submitting the materials are asked to revise…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on December 7, 2009 at 11:40pm —
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[Announcement from Public Engagement listserv]
IMPACT: National Student Conference on Service, Advocacy & Social Action
March 19-21, 2010
The Clinton School of Public Service
Little Rock, Arkansas
Dear Campus Administrator:
We are pleased to inform you that registration for the IMPACT Conference
is officially open! Do you think that your institution would be willing
to send 3 students to the conference?
Join college students, administrators, faculty, national nonprofit
organizations, soc…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on December 7, 2009 at 11:15pm —
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[Announcement from nsrcnews]
Resource Connection eNewsletter- Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
Resource Center Tools and Training for Volunteers and Service Programs
ABOUT THE RESOURCE CENTER
The Resource Center is a training and technical assistance provider funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service to support volunteer and service programs across the nation.
http://www.nationalserviceres…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on December 7, 2009 at 10:48pm —
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[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
HIGHER EDUCATION, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS:
CONCEPTS, MODELS, AND APPLICATIONS
A book edited by Melody Bowdon, PhD (Associate Professor, Department of
English, University of Central Florida) and Russell Carpenter, PhD
(Director, Noel Studio for Academic Creativity, Eastern Kentucky
University)
To be published by IGI Global
For more on the publisher and to review the full call online, go to:…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on December 7, 2009 at 10:36pm —
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[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
re: Service-Learning in Accounting and Finance Courses
We have a couple of examples in SLICE (
http://www.servicelearning.org/slice) of syllabi involving Accounting and Finance that might be interesting as models:
Business 212
http://servicelearning.org/slice/index.php?ep_action=view&ep…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on November 29, 2009 at 8:22pm —
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[Announcement excerpt from comm-engagedscholarship listserv]
Dear community-engaged scholarship colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the inaugural issue of the new International
Journal of Prevention Practice and Research (IJPPR)! Below is the list of
articles and abstracts appearing in the issue about CES4Health.info
IJPPR is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes high quality articles
reporting the development and results of community-driven prevention
programs, innovative community/campu…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on November 16, 2009 at 5:37pm —
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[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
National Service Agency Looking for Peer Reviewers
The Corporation for National and Community Service is seeking Peer
Reviewers and Facilitators to assist in the review of its competitive
grant applications.
The Corporation engages experts from the field to read applications and
provide an analysis and rating of the quality of each application based
upon published criteria. The Corporation considers peer reviewer
comments and ratings in funding decisi…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on November 16, 2009 at 3:43pm —
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[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
re: Mandatory service learning in your curriculum?
Campus Compact's Program Model Database, has a category on required service, where you can see a list of Campus Compact member institutions that have a service or civic engagement requirement.
www.compact.org/category/program-models/program-models-required-service/
Service Learning at CSUMB…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on November 11, 2009 at 8:17pm —
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[Announcement from comm-engagedscholarship listserv]
The Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) Annual Award recognizes exemplary
partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions that are striving to
achieve the systems and policy changes needed to overcome the root causes of health,
social and economic inequalities. The award highlights the power and potential of
community-campus partnerships as a strategy for social justice. The 2010 award will be
announced and re…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on November 9, 2009 at 1:50pm —
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[Announcement from SCRA listserv]
Reminder: Call for Papers
THE AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGIST, Vol. 22, Issue 1. Special Issue on Psychology & Poverty Reduction
Editors: David Fryer (Charles Sturt University) & Cathy McCormack
The first issue of 2010 will be a special issue devoted to community critical psychology approaches to poverty reduction.
Contributions by: people with first hand experience of poverty; poverty activists; members of organisations committed to poverty reduct…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 20, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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SUBJECT: New service-learning opportunities for Spring 2010
To all students, all majors, all levels:
Consider registering for a new course entitled LINC-Learning in
Community. As a result of this course, you can expect to improve your
project skills and to contribute to an important problem that benefits
a nonprofit organization.
LINC is a service-learning course in which teams of students work on
real projects proposed by community partners. There are 16 sections of
the…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 20, 2009 at 4:07pm —
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[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
***REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS DUE OCTOBER 19, 2009***
PEOPLE, PLACE, & PARTNERS: Building and Sustaining Engagement in Critical Times
March 3-5, 2010
Hosted by The University of Georgia
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2010 Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Through Higher Education March 3-5, 2010. Please see the website
http://www.georgiacenter…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 8, 2009 at 4:53pm —
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[Announcement from ResearchSLCE listserv]
We are writing to remind you of the Fri Oct 16 deadline for proposals for
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) conference, May 12-15, 2010 in
Portland, Oregon! The conference, "Creating the Future We Want to Be:
Transformation through Partnerships" promises to be CCPH's best yet as hundreds
of community and campus partners convene for 4 days of skill-building,
networking and agenda-setting!
We invite you to share your knowledge, wisdom and e…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 6, 2009 at 1:11pm —
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[Announcement from NSLP]
Let the 2009-2010 National Learn & Serve Challenge begin!
This week, more than 71,000 young people, educators, community
partners, civic leaders, and business partners will participate in
activities to build awareness and public support for service-learning
through the National Learn & Serve Challenge.
http://www.learnandservechallenge.org
For two years, the National Learn & Serve C…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 6, 2009 at 1:06pm —
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